I am running a half-life dedicated server and I want to be able to log into the box via ssh and have the output from the server program go the ssh window on the client without having to restart the server. I am logged in as the same user that runs the server.

Can I use the "watch" command for this. Such as "watch hlds" or will that restart the server or do nothing at all?

i'd say that you want to execute the program inside a "screen" session, and then you can call that virtual terminal back up whenever you want from any login.

well I got curious and tried watch but it did not seem to work.

What is a "screen" session? How would I do that?

it's a program, install it, read the docs. not used it myself, but that's what it does.

Where would the docs me located? Who makes "screen"?
I seem to have it included with redhat 8 but I can't make much sense of the options.

Just to clarify. What I want is to be able to see the outputs from the processes running under my account already when I log in remotely via ssh. I want to remotely manage and view what is already running in Konsole. I am basically looking for some equivalent to remote desktop in windows xp.

There has to be a simple way to do this since linux is supposed to be the server os of choice.